Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-09-30


| toward the ends of his fingers a long
strip of cloth. which he had concealed in
his palm. Then he shook out the strip
and said it was composed of the pieces.
Then he rolled up and palmed, and turn
ing his back to the audience to go back
| upon the stage he put all the bits of
Cloth away under his coat and showed his
hands TO be empty. Then he picked up a
lemon from which the pulp had been Ie-
moved, and inside of which a handker-
chief had been placed. Ha cut the
lemon and drew out the handk erchief.
| The spectators thought it was the one he
had borrowed and they applauded. He
put the handkerchief on plate and put
some alcohol upon it. The pretty Young
woman set fire to it with a candle. Then
he extiHguished the flame with sheet of
paper, lu which he wrapped the embers
he Went to & table rolled the package
with his hand into little well, and took
up another paper containing an unscorch-
ed piece of cloth. He walked down
toward the audience, pretended to toss
the piece of cloth to lady with his left
and palmed it with his right hand, which
he dropped to his waist. While the spec
tators were looking at his left he conceal
ed the piece of cloth in pocket lust in
side the edge of his coat. Hs then placed
his wand under his left arm and took from
the pocket there the original borrowed
handkerchief, concealed Ill his palm.
Placing his hand at a gentleman's ear.
he dropped the handkerchief to the ends
of his fingers, pretended to take it out of
the gentleman's ear and hauded it to the
lady.
The performer borrowed a tall hat turn
ed his back to the audience, put hand
kerchief containing three eggs into the
hat as he turned to the audience faced
sbOnt, and took first the handkerchief
and the eggs from the hat. The pretty
young woman with short wand in her
hand, went down the aisle and borrowed
three rings. Returning to the stage she
slipped three other rings upon the wand
and handed it to the showmon keeping
the three borrowed rings concealed in
her hands. She then went behind the
scenes and tied the three rings to ribbons
hanging from the necks of three white
doves and put the doves in the deep cover
of a stewpan. The cover had false
bottom held in place by spring. While
she was doing this Herman let the three
bogus rings slide from the wand into a
stewpan, broke the eggs and dropped
them in, poured IN some alcohol aud set
fire to 1t. The pretty young woman
brought out the cover and Herman pIac-
ed it on the Dan. He then released the
false bottom, lifted the cover and showed
the three doves sitting on the pan with
the three borrowed rings tied to their
necks. He placed one of the doves on
the barrel of pistol and fired his weap-
on The dove was trained not to move.
He put the dove on table, covered it
with handkerchief, dropped the bird
through little trap, gathered up the
handkerchief as if the dove were inside.
wiggling his finger in the handkerchief
to stimulate the huttering of the bird.
and then smashed the handkerchief be-
tween his hands very violently. Ladies
in the audience said "Ohn' The show
man then shook the handkerchief out
by the corners and showed that it was
empty.
Herman next got programme, rolled
it up into the form of candy-horn, plac-
ing in it secretly a compressed packet
of cut paper flowers that he obtained
from the packet under his left arm. Put
ting his right hand into the horn, osten-
sibly to shape it better, he removed the
pressure from the packet and the paper
flowers swelled and filled the horn He
shook them out upon the table, put his
hand upon them to arrange them, and
picked up another pocket, which he ia
troduced into the horn while again ad-
justing its shape. He repeated this
several times, until etout a bushel of
flowers had been shaken out.
He then borrowed hat, took rabbit
from under his coat as he walked away,
and put it into the hat. Then he took the
rabbit out of the hat by the ears. While
the spectators were examining that rab-
bit he held the hat close to his breast with
his right hand and put into it another
rabbit with S left. He took that rab-
bit out. Then he placed both rabbits on
the table, one hiding tbs other from the
spectators, dropped the latter rabbit
through trap, rubbed the remaining
one, and SAID he had rolled two rabbits
into one. A confederate in the audience
had third rabbit concealed in his in
side coat pocket. Herman came down,
struggled with the man, and pulled the
rabbit out of his pocket. Herman re-
turned to the stage, tossed the rabbit in
the air, placed it on a shelf behind the
table when it came down, made a tossing
movement again very quickly, fired q
pistol with his left hand, and looked up
as though he had thrown the rabbit into
the flies. Then the curtain came down
for an intermission, and it had all been
easy enough TO see through if you knew
how.
Removing a Serious Obstruction Gently.
Dynamite and giant powder might answer ad-
mrably TO remove distractions from Hell Gate
in East River, New York, but explosive measures
in medication are ever attended with disastrous
consequences For instance, the bowels cannot
be violently drenched with safety, nor is there
the slightest necessity for so doing. On the con-
trary, It is most unwise None but the purbind
alhere-ts of antiquateJ theories in medicine a l.
wise or sanct on such course To weaken the
intestInes-the effect OF drastic puTgatiOn-iS 10
compromise the health of the entire system.
With Ho-tetter's Stomach BiJtsrs, on the other
hand. the bowels are relaxed, not by CONFUSION
OF nature apprOxImating 20 an eruption OF lit.
Popoc ttapetl but gradually, beneficiaily, without
VI enching or drenchIng. The liver and stomach,
as well as the bowels, toned and benefited
by il.
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